Virgin Media - Crap/Not Crap
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cybershot
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Your bank direct debits will tell you.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Ah, I'm a bit more than that, £24 on unlimited data
sim667
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I found them, they're hidden away
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
And it's faster. Couldn't get them down to £37 for 200mbs, but they did it for £40. Bizzarly keeping tv and phone made £3 cheaper.
What's actually far more exciting then the speed increase is that my upload has doubled. Just over a year ago I was living somewhere where watching a youtube video without it buffering was far from a certainty.
What's actually far more exciting then the speed increase is that my upload has doubled. Just over a year ago I was living somewhere where watching a youtube video without it buffering was far from a certainty.
cybershot
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And it's faster. Couldn't get them down to £37 for 200mbs, but they did it for £40. Bizzarly keeping tv and phone made £3 cheaper.
What's actually far more exciting then the speed increase is that my upload has doubled. Just over a year ago I was living somewhere where watching a youtube video without it buffering was far from a certainty.
Yes my only gripe with them is the upload speeds, which is not on par with other networks, and could be ammo to use at them, especially as I torrent a fair bit (behind a VPN) with a couple of private trackers so need to keep ratio, although saying that I've nearly a 1TB buffer with both anyway!
Looks like I'll leave them be until the next price increase as been as you didn't beat £37.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yes my only gripe with them is the upload speeds, which is not on par with other networks, and could be ammo to use at them, especially as I torrent a fair bit (behind a VPN) with a couple of private trackers so need to keep ratio, although saying that I've nearly a 1TB buffer with both anyway!
Looks like I'll leave them be until the next price increase as been as you didn't beat £37.
I've not really got much to compare to really, I've spend most of my life with shit internet, due to living out in the sticks in shared accommodation. At my last place I used a seedbox, then slowly downloaded the files from that. I'd rather put what I spent on that on my main internet though and I've still got large buffers!
Keep at it!
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I've turned it into a twitter war. I don't mind paying the extra, if they upgrade me to 200mb tbh..... but if they won't talk to me, Ill shop around and just cancel.
cybershot
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I can't even find a page on their site anymore that confirms what the upload speeds are other than the gamer packages being 20Mb, the only other page is some crappy average speeds of the packages, with upload for 200Mb averaging at a crappy 11Mb. Compared to other fibre companies that's pretty shite in ratio to the download speed. However I can cope with it as I can just leave torrents running, it's not like I'm gaming or using twitch or whatever to stream myself and suffering with lag. I guess it's how they keep their download speeds fast by crippling the upload. Most other fibre networks offer 20Mb upload on their 76Mb packages.
If you phone and moan about upload they will just sell you the gamer package for the same download speed as I'm already getting, so seems no point arguing over it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Maybe make a complaint about them hanging up on you as well? That's got to be worth something?
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Good shout.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
12mbs download would still seem fast to me, but hadn't realised other fiber companies were quicker on their uploads. TBH it's rare that I'm using my upload, even with the 48 seeds I've got going on at the moment, although a quicker connection should mean when someone does grab it, they get more from me.
No bugger is actually downloading from me at the moment though. Maybe I should just grab the latest porn files. They seem to seed very quickly.
cybershot
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12mbs download would still seem fast to me, but hadn't realised other fiber companies were quicker on their uploads. TBH it's rare that I'm using my upload, even with the 48 seeds I've got going on at the moment, although a quicker connection should mean when someone does grab it, they get more from me.
No bugger is actually downloading from me at the moment though. Maybe I should just grab the latest porn files. They seem to seed very quickly.
VMs down to up ratio always used to be 10:1 until a few years ago.
ruffneck23
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when you call them always chose the option ' so youre thinking of leaving us,' youll get through to a non outsourced retentions team that you can negotiate with
ruffneck23
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hmm i called them a few weeks ago to change my package , up the internet to 200mb and decrese the tv package, i was told the cost of my new bill was coming down, but the fuckers dont seem to have done any of the changes, will have to call them this eve
cybershot
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Looks like they are playing hardball on the people looking for reductions and just offering them more! In which case I'm glad I didn't phone, as whatever automated system is looking after my account currently is doing a pretty bad job of it! Probably better I stay under the radar!
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I think you do have to at least make the pretence that your going to leave. In fairness they were going to knock mine down from £50 to £35 with little argument and I had to push a bit to get the 200mbs for £40. It's weird though how much variance there is with different people.
I can't actually think of anything to torrent now. Downloaded a linux distro just to see how fast it would do it, but that kind of novelty runs out real fast.
I can't actually think of anything to torrent now. Downloaded a linux distro just to see how fast it would do it, but that kind of novelty runs out real fast.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
TBF I was braced to getting it and just using it in Modem modem and getting a separate box, but it works flawlessly.
ruffneck23
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I no longer torrent or use Kodi but pay for an iptv provider so do need a decent speed of internet , one thing i do need to do and i cant find is a way with the superhub 3 to put a vpn directly onto the modem , any ideas folks ?
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Apparently its still an issue in modem mode too.
But I want to use a external router as I have VPN set up on it, and some other bits and pieces.
cybershot
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Mine's been fine, I've had it about 6 months. No noticeable difference from the 2. I think the majority of the issues have been ironed out with Firmware updates. Be patient when you first connect it as it will do loads of updates, I thought mine had bricked itself right away, but did come up after 30 mins.
Only annoyances were:
the admin password has new minimum requirements meaning I use a slightly different password to what I used before, so I always type it wrong when I need to get into the settings and takes me 2 minutes to remember what character I changed!
same issue with wifi passwords. I change my SSID to one I've created so I don't have to go around every device and change the wifi details every time I change a router, except this time I had to go round and change the passwords as my last one was apparently not having enough numbers or capital letters.
If you do any port forwarding, enter the ports in lowest number first, otherwise you'll get errors when you try and add a lower number to what the current highest number is. Which annoyed the fuck out of me this weekend as I needed to forward a port temporarily which was lower than I had already had the max in for, so had to trash the lot and re-enter all my port forwards again.
Other than that, it's performance has been good. Like yourself I was nto full of confidence after reading numerous complaints on their forums and until I found the port forward hack, I was minutes away from buying a £200 TP-Link all singing and dancing router and put the SH3 into modem mode!
cybershot
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You can't, you'd need to get a seperate router that supports it and put the SH3 in modem mode. You can do it another way using a raspberry pi or something as a DHCP server instead that's connected to the VPN.
cybershot
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I think you'll be fine, pretty sure those latency issues have been resolved.
sim667
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How do you find using an IPTV?
I'd be tempted as I'm now thinking of cord cutting....... Ace looks good at £10, it will work on my kodi too.....
Only thing I really think I'd miss is being able to record.
ruffneck23
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I use ace , 90 quid for 2 devices for a year , its really good got loads of channel all the sports, movies etc , films, series etc , the only caveat is during premiership games my ISP ( virgin ) blocks it , thus wanting to get a VPN to get around it .tis ok on my brother's fire stick as you can use VPN on that , but not on my smart TV
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's certainly a hell of an impressive list of channels. If I watched more TV I might consider it, but we actually disconnected the virgin box as I'm so out the habit of channel surfing.
I'm assuming you need a hell of a VPN to make the most of a fast fibre connection. I used Surf Easy for a bit, but tbh it was shit.
I'm assuming you need a hell of a VPN to make the most of a fast fibre connection. I used Surf Easy for a bit, but tbh it was shit.
cybershot
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PIA is well worth the money About £30 on current exchange rates,
and that speedtest is from a netherlands server!
Also in regards to diverting your smart tv traffic over the VPN, here's how you could do it with a Pi: How to VPN Your IoT & Media Devices with a Raspberry Pi PIA Routertraffic « Null Byte :: WonderHowTo
If it's just temp, you can probably find a guide on how to do the same thing with a windows device too.
Although you may just want to put the time and money into getting a dedicated router with it all built in.
and that speedtest is from a netherlands server!
Also in regards to diverting your smart tv traffic over the VPN, here's how you could do it with a Pi: How to VPN Your IoT & Media Devices with a Raspberry Pi PIA Routertraffic « Null Byte :: WonderHowTo
If it's just temp, you can probably find a guide on how to do the same thing with a windows device too.
Although you may just want to put the time and money into getting a dedicated router with it all built in.
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